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but most importantly, we'll show the rest of the world, america's open for business, america can do america's business, america can be the innovators that they've been from the time the first patent was issued -- i say with pride -- to a vermonter back in a day where the then-secretary of state, thomas jefferson, reviewed the application. it was then signed by the president of the united states, george washington, the heirs of that vermonter wish they had the copy of the original. it would be worth a tad right now. but probably more than the invention was worth. but it's a -- now, of course, they're not reviewed by the secretary of state and signed by the president. thank goodness, there's over 700,000 pending. we need legislation to bring that up to date. and this act will promote innovation, it will create new businesses and, as a result, new jobs. this is bipartisan legislation that will allow inventors to secure their patents more quickly, have better success commercializing them. now, the pending amendment, of course, basically would gut the bill. with all due respect, it would destroy a
but most importantly, we'll show the rest of the world, america's open for business, america can do america's business, america can be the innovators that they've been from the time the first patent was issued -- i say with pride -- to a vermonter back in a day where the then-secretary of state, thomas jefferson, reviewed the application. it was then signed by the president of the united states, george washington, the heirs of that vermonter wish they had the copy of the original. it would be...
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america america my -- mr. merkley: my colleague from texas was addressing this amendment and noting her support for it. i would like to address several reasons that y this amendment is bad policy for america. first and foremost, this amendment increases our addiction to foreign oil. it increases oil consumption by 455 million barrels. right now we import about 9.7 million barrels of oil per day. so this amendment is equivalent to six weeks' worth of oil imports. recognize that gas prices are about $3.50 a gallon. the mcconnell-inhofe amendment amounts to a $68 billion price tag for working families to buy gas, to buy gas from oil imported from overseas. and this isn't a tax that in any way supports our economy. in fact, this is a tax that goes out of our economy to purchase energy from overseas. so, from the middle east, from nigeria, from venezuala. that is very profitable to the companies that supply that oil. it's very profitable to the governments far outside of the united states of america. but it certain
america america my -- mr. merkley: my colleague from texas was addressing this amendment and noting her support for it. i would like to address several reasons that y this amendment is bad policy for america. first and foremost, this amendment increases our addiction to foreign oil. it increases oil consumption by 455 million barrels. right now we import about 9.7 million barrels of oil per day. so this amendment is equivalent to six weeks' worth of oil imports. recognize that gas prices are...
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Mar 31, 2011
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the biggest banks in america, the top 1% of banks in america are the ones that do almost 60% of this credit card business. i'm talking about the same wall street banks that ended up getting a bailout from the federal government to the tunes of hundreds of billions of dollars. i don't have a lot of sympathy for them. they made some stoop i had mistakes -- stoop i had mistakes. we shouldn't create an opportunity for them to fix prices when it comes to merchants and retailers across america. well, this passed last year with a strong bipartisan vote of 64. and the biggest banks in america and the biggest credit cards -- credit card companies in america have been working nonstop ever since to stop this from going into effect. they have poured more resources into this effort than i've seen. and i've been around this place for a while. they want to stop this because they hate swipe fee reform like the devil hates holy water. for them it is a dramatic loss of money. how much? each month -- each month in america these swipe fees generate $1.3 billion -- $1.3 bi generate $1.3 billion -- $1.3 b
the biggest banks in america, the top 1% of banks in america are the ones that do almost 60% of this credit card business. i'm talking about the same wall street banks that ended up getting a bailout from the federal government to the tunes of hundreds of billions of dollars. i don't have a lot of sympathy for them. they made some stoop i had mistakes -- stoop i had mistakes. we shouldn't create an opportunity for them to fix prices when it comes to merchants and retailers across america. well,...
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it looks like it didn't destroy america. we're still operating. but they fought and they fought and they balanced the budget. so mr. lew was there during that period of time. certainly, he deserves some credit for that, and i was pleased to support him, but i was stunningly disappointed when mr. lew went on television and said the president's ten-year budget calls on america to live within its means to not spend more than we take in when, over the ten-year budget, there is not a single year by the president's own budget submitted by mr. lew in which the deficit fell below $600 billion. and in the out years, the numbers were going up to about about $800 billion. now since mr. lew submitted the president's budget, the congressional budget office, a bipartisan, nonpartisan group, basically the leadership elected by the democratic majority analyzed mr. lew in president -d president obama's budget said it's far lower than that. the lowest single deficit we'll have in ten years is is $740 billion. the highest president bush ever had was $450 billion. th
it looks like it didn't destroy america. we're still operating. but they fought and they fought and they balanced the budget. so mr. lew was there during that period of time. certainly, he deserves some credit for that, and i was pleased to support him, but i was stunningly disappointed when mr. lew went on television and said the president's ten-year budget calls on america to live within its means to not spend more than we take in when, over the ten-year budget, there is not a single year by...
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Mar 9, 2011
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now that's not my vision for america. and with gasoline over $7 per gallon in places like germany and france, i doubt that many americans share that vision. yet this administration has chosen to use the e.p.a. to make gasoline expensive through its ill-advised energy tax plan. the e.p.a. is targeting our fuel refineries when gas prices are headed to $4 per gallon and oil is over $100 a barrel. it doesn't make sense. but when we thought we saw a ray of hope, when the president said that he wanted to slow down the regulatory freight train bearing down on the nation's job creators, well, something happened. he said that he wanted to refuse the regulatory burdens on small businesses. he went so far as to put out an executive order in january and he instructed the agencies to review -- quote -- "rules that have gotten out of balance, placing unreasonable burdens on business, burdens that have stifled innovation and have had a chilling effect on jobs and growth." unfortunately the e.p.a. apparently believes their greenhouse gas
now that's not my vision for america. and with gasoline over $7 per gallon in places like germany and france, i doubt that many americans share that vision. yet this administration has chosen to use the e.p.a. to make gasoline expensive through its ill-advised energy tax plan. the e.p.a. is targeting our fuel refineries when gas prices are headed to $4 per gallon and oil is over $100 a barrel. it doesn't make sense. but when we thought we saw a ray of hope, when the president said that he...
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what will that mean to the medicare recipients across america? does it mean less coverage, less care? it doesn't have to. i always use as an illustration the average cost per medicare beneficiary in my hometown of springfield, illinois, the average annual cost is between $7,000 and $8,000. you go up to chicago, more specialty hospitals, higher cost of living, it is $8,000 to $10,000 a year for the average medicare beneficiary. then you go down to miami and the number is $14,000 to $15,000. why the dramatic difference between chicago and miami? that's a question we ought to ask. is there better care in florida or just more expensive care? can we bring the cost of that care down and not compromise the quality of the care? hard questions but the only questions that count if you want to have reform in medicare that doesn't sacrifice the basic benefits. what i would say to senator mcconnell is this: yesterday he quoted me earlier in a statement. i wasn't on the floor. yesterday i said that i was supporting not the house republican budget, but the budg
what will that mean to the medicare recipients across america? does it mean less coverage, less care? it doesn't have to. i always use as an illustration the average cost per medicare beneficiary in my hometown of springfield, illinois, the average annual cost is between $7,000 and $8,000. you go up to chicago, more specialty hospitals, higher cost of living, it is $8,000 to $10,000 a year for the average medicare beneficiary. then you go down to miami and the number is $14,000 to $15,000. why...
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stay in america. thank you, mr. president. and i yield the floor. the presiding officer: the senator from maryland. mr. cardin: thank you, mr. president. 12 years ago this very day the senate passed a resolution that honored harriet tubman, har yet tubman day -- harriet tubman day on march 10. that resolution was sponsored by senator carper and then senator biden. in the house of representatives i served and i cosponsored a similar resolution. harriet tubman was a remarkable woman. she was born in dorchester county, maryland in 1822 and she was a slave for greater than 25 years of her life. at age 25 she married john tubman. she escaped slavery in 1849, but she returned to the eastern shore of maryland not once, but 19 times that we know of within a ten-year period in order to rescue slaves and to set them free. she rescued slaves in dorchester, in caroline county in maryland and throughout the entire northeast. she was known as the modern-day moses for the underground railroad. in the civil war, she
stay in america. thank you, mr. president. and i yield the floor. the presiding officer: the senator from maryland. mr. cardin: thank you, mr. president. 12 years ago this very day the senate passed a resolution that honored harriet tubman, har yet tubman day -- harriet tubman day on march 10. that resolution was sponsored by senator carper and then senator biden. in the house of representatives i served and i cosponsored a similar resolution. harriet tubman was a remarkable woman. she was born...
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and these are people who represent the employers of america. the employers who want to be able to give their employees the health care coverage that they can afford right now. it may not be the government-prescribed health care, but many are trying to do it. and the groups that have signed this letter supporting my amendment to say stop implementation now are the associated builders and contractors, the associated general contractors, the electrical contractors, the food service distributors, the international franchisees, the national association of manufacturers, the national association of wholesale distributors, the national retail federation, the small business and entrepreneurship council, the united states chamber of commerce, and the independent women's voice. the 60-plus association. these are the groups that are saying, let's stop the upheaval that this has caused in our country and let's wait and see what the supreme court says before we have the outlays of millions of dollars. and what -- and most certainly the small businesses that
and these are people who represent the employers of america. the employers who want to be able to give their employees the health care coverage that they can afford right now. it may not be the government-prescribed health care, but many are trying to do it. and the groups that have signed this letter supporting my amendment to say stop implementation now are the associated builders and contractors, the associated general contractors, the electrical contractors, the food service distributors,...
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build america bonds to build the infrastructure of america in a strong way, make it in america and other legislation to stop jobs going overseas by reversing the tax breakses for companies -- breaks for companies taking jobs overseas. so those are the only initiatives, and the republicans overwhelmingly voted against those initiatives. so all we've seen has come from the democrats in job creation. what we're seeing from the republicans is taking us in the wrong direction. we have made it clear that we will extend a happened of friendship, as congressman larson said. but we will judge every initiative that comes to the floor by three criteria. one, does it create jobs. two, does it strengthen the middle class. three, does it reduce the deficit. all of them on a par with each other, all of one piece. what we see with the reversing the economic recovery in the bill is not an initiative that will reduce the deficit. instead we see false economies that must be stopped. now, we had proposed we'd save $41 billion at the end of last year, $43 billion cut in president obama's budget. only one rep
build america bonds to build the infrastructure of america in a strong way, make it in america and other legislation to stop jobs going overseas by reversing the tax breakses for companies -- breaks for companies taking jobs overseas. so those are the only initiatives, and the republicans overwhelmingly voted against those initiatives. so all we've seen has come from the democrats in job creation. what we're seeing from the republicans is taking us in the wrong direction. we have made it clear...